Theories on my part (IMO)
1. GOP enthusiasm.
2. Grass roots since 2008
2a Freedom Works GOTV
2b AFP GOTV
3c Citizens United GOTV and group organizing
3d True the Vote groups
3f Tea Parties of all shapes and sizes
4. Democrat overconfidence
5. 2008 Obama Magic is fading and it’s turning out to be traditional PRECINCT GOTV contest
Who is the SOS in Ohio (R or D)?
Let me tell you of an incident I had in Missouri a few months ago at a political rally (Rally for Common Sense near Jefferson City). I was having a chat with the local/Regional Tea Party Patriots leader which was most informative.
At their booth, they were signing up local volunteers for the defense of Gov. Walker (recall). The TPP would provide airfare, room, board and training for precinct organizing and GOTV. LOTS of people were signing up! According to the TPP person, there were signing up people as far away as California, Florida and Texas....and that’s not counting the out-of-state phone banks!
I can only imagine the scope which these groups (and countless others) are doing behind the scenes to take back our country. If they can do this for a recall election against the liberal bastion of Wisconsin (where the gates of Mordor were in full force) I shudder what they’re doing in the general election.
WE ARE NOT ALONE FREEPERS!!!!
2008 Obama Magic is fading
Good list, but the past tense
faded would have been better - maybe even 'defunct'.
Back when he was all the rage, I remember seeing Obabbles fanboy crap posted all over Facebook & Myspace pages belonging to suburban soccer moms. They couldn't get enough of him. By the spring of 2010 all that was extinct, not to be seen again. The realization began early that perhaps he wasn't all what he was cracked up to be. All this nonsense presently going on overseas and his (non)response to it has really gotten people torqued off. We've had our property overrun, trashed, our people killed and he shrugs his shoulders; oopsie, "bump in the road". No fire-and-brimstone speeches or remarks standing up on our behalf, no summoning of foreign ambassadors to tell them to get their s%*& straight in regards to us
or else it will get straightened out for them - just inconsequential "can't we all get along" sophomoric pablum. Americans aren't used to being attacked, threatened or taunted in such a reckless manner, at this current level of intensity, made even more disconcerting by the fact that the people who are supposed to be handling this sort of thing are more interested in and worried about their own futures and political standing than doing their jobs. Rubbing a lot of citizenry the wrong way, it is.